13 Feb
2010
13 Feb
'10
6:14 p.m.
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:07:21PM -0600, Brent Busby wrote:
It seems that with CD's, you're cursed one way
or another nomatter what
era they come from. In the 80's CD's, you have the gritty metallic
sound that comes from inappropriate EQ that was mentioned,
If that were the real problem then applying the inverse
EQ would solve it (and you'd gain some S/N ratio as well).
Try it and you'll find it doesn't work that way.
or sometimes from bad AD conversion.
That was surely a problem in those days, in
particular at lower levels.
(They used to do everything in 16-bit a lot
then, end-to-end, no 24-bit for more processing
headroom like now.)
Which actually is no problem in the hands of someone who
knows what he's doing. It just allows less amateurism.
And a typical listener's available dynamic range is a
fraction of what 16-bit can provide.
'Management' fucking up the sound by prescribing some
mandatory processing is nothing new for the CD era, it
existed all through the LP times as well.
Ciao,
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